With posthumous tributes to the Brazilian indigenist Bruno Pereira, the British journalist Dominik Phillips and the anthropologist and professor Adriana Dias, Unicamp and the Vladimir Herzog Institute will hold, next Monday (22), the awards ceremony for the third edition of the Academic Recognition in Human Rights.
The ceremony will take place in the amphitheater of the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), starting at 10 am, and will be open to the entire academic community.
Created during the pandemic, the award – which aims to give relevance to works that reaffirm science's commitment to promoting the dignity of life – will have a special character this year. For the first time, the ceremony will be held in person and, also for the first time, it will cover all areas of knowledge.
Organizer of the award, Josianne Cerasoli, professor at the Department of History at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH) at Unicamp, says that 132 works were entered, in five different areas. All this material was evaluated by a national commission made up of 40 experts.
Fifteen works were selected in the areas of Exact Sciences, Engineering and Technology; Biological and Health Sciences; Human, Social and Economic Sciences; Arts, Communication and Language; and Education. Three works from each area were nominated.
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The professor explains that the organization did not just want to reward research on Human Rights, but to evaluate work that was committed to the dignity of life (and not just human life). According to Cerasoli, the idea is that the works would be, in some way, linked to issues of inequality, poverty, violence, race, migration, the environment, sustainability, among others. Research published in 2022 was evaluated.
The teacher highlights that even the choice of the moment to present the award was in line with this idea. May 21st was chosen by the UN (United Nations) as the World Day for Cultural Diversity and Dialogue and Development. “I think this defines the idea of the award well,” she says.
Honorary award
In addition to academic recognition, the organization must also present an Honorary Award, recognizing researchers or academics who stood out for their contribution to research related to Human Rights.
In this case, there will be four honorees. In addition to the aforementioned Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips – murdered on June 5, 2022 during a trip through Vale do Javari, in Amazonas – and Unicamp professor Adriana Dias – who died on January 29 of this year –, the award also will include the lawyer, philosopher and university professor Silvio Almeida.
Doctor and post-doctor in Philosophy and General Theory of Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo (USP), Almeida is one of the most important current thinkers on the issue of racism in Brazil. This year, he became head of Brazil's Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship.
“Normally there would be three honorees, as is the case in other areas, but, in this case, it was not possible for us to dissociate Bruno Pereira from Dom Phillips”, explained the professor.
Alessandra Sampaio, widow of Dom Phillips, and Beatriz Mattos, widow of Bruno Pereira, recorded videos thanking them for the award, which will be shown at the ceremony. Marcelo Higa, widower of Adriana Dias, is expected to participate in the ceremony.
The ceremony will also be attended by the rector of Unicamp, Antonio José de Almeida Meirelles, the general coordinator of the University, Maria Luiza Moretti, professor Silvia Santiago, member of the Executive Board of Human Rights (DEDH), and the executive director from the Vladimir Herzog Institute, Rogério Sotilli.
The award-winning research will become topics for reports to be published in the Journal of Unicamp.
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Unicamp and Instituto Vladmir Herzog publish results of the Academic Recognition Award in Human Rights
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